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I just received an email bounce with an error message saying:
Error 554 Message could not be sent due to inappropriate content
It was an important email. I had worked into the night to prepare some source code from a programmer in Nigeria for somebody else to work on. I was not amused to be told that my email was "inappropriate".
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Security design: Why UAC will not work - InfoWorld
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Security design: Why UAC will not work
InfoWorld, CA - 3 hours ago
Microsoft is trying to encourage users and developers to go least privilege by introducing UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista, ...
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Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
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By Suzanne Tindal
Special to CNET News.com
Published: November 27, 2007, 5:13 AM PST
New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.
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Vector Magic - The Online Tool for Precision Vectorization

A web site converts bitmap images to vector art it's an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.
Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.
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Visual Studio 2008 Ships - eWeek
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eWeek, NY - 9 hours ago
The new development platform provides a consistent solution for developing applications for the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, ...
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Windows XP is "Still the Best" - FOX News
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FOX News - 7 hours ago
Rather than use the one built into Vista, with XP I can choose among at least three. Linux is beautiful and stable, but the applications problem on Linux is ...
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Audio glitching - Common under Vista, not so bad under other OSes - ZDNet
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Audio glitching - Common under Vista, not so bad under other OSes
ZDNet - 12 hours ago
This glitching is obviously a big problem and as we become more and more multimedia oriented, we’re going to expect Windows-based PCs to be able to handle ...
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Cyber crime black market prices

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The German company G DATA dove into the cybercrime scene and uncovered a few interesting tidbits.
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GMail shakes IMAP out of coma - The Register
Mail protocol wasn't dead, only sleeping
By Bill Ray
Published Wednesday 24th October 2007 10:25 GMT
Google has slipped IMAP support into its GMail service, allowing users to manage their mail on the server and access it using different clients, with the status of their messages maintained.
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nVidia's nwiz.exe causes excessive processor load
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[The following article comes from MVP Steve Easton. Thanks a lot, Steve! The text has been slightly edited, formatted, and enhanced.]
If you have an NVIDIA video card and Windows XP or 2000, check the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Run
and see if nwiz.exe is being launched on start up.
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